Death in High Heels | |
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Directed by | Lionel Tomlinson |
Based on | Death in High Heels by Christianna Brand |
Produced by | Henry Halsted |
Starring | Don Stannard Elsa Tee Veronica Rose |
Cinematography | Stanley Clinton |
Production company | Marylebone-Hammer Productions |
Distributed by | Exclusive Films |
Release date |
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Running time | 48 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Death in High Heels is a 1947 British second feature ('B') [1] crime film directed by Lionel Tomlinson (credited as "Tommy Tomlinson") and starring Don Stannard, Elsa Tee and Veronica Rose. [2] [3] It was based on the 1941 novel of the same title by Christianna Brand. It was a very early Hammer Films (here Marylebone-Hammer) production and was released through Exclusive Films, Hammer's original incarnation.
The police are called in when a woman is murdered at a luxury Bond Street shop.
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "The acting of most of the cast is stilted and the only three who seem at all happy in their parts are Don Stannard as the handsome Charlesworth, Leslie Spurling as his assistant, and Bill Hodge as an effeminate dress designer. There is an overabundance of dialogue and, for a murder mystery the film lacks suspense." [4]
Kine Weekly wrote: "Its plot contains ingenuity and its de luxe dress shop atmosphere is not without glamour, and between the two it manages to triumph over a slightly amateurish script." [5]
In British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959 David Quinlan rated the film as "poor", calling it an "unconvincing thriller that hardly does justice to the author's original novel." [6]
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